CBD buying: it's the wild west out there. We can help.

It is hard to know what you are getting when you buy CBD anywhere. Here's an article from JAMA 2017 where researchers bought 84 different CBD products then tested them for CBD content. Here is some of what they found:

· Only 31% of products had the CBD content printed on the label, so over 2/3 of CBD products had more or less CBD than printed on the label.

· The FDA actually sent warning letters to CBD businesses who had less than 1% CBD in their CBD-labelled products.

We have seen this reality in our own practice. Many of our patients bring in CBD products that have been bought or provided in good faith, and either:

· Have very little CBD in them

· Or have CBD in them, but the cost per mg of CBD is way too high, up to 5-10 times the cost of comparable products

So as consumers, we want products:

· That have the CBD we think we are buying

· At a reasonable price

· And are well manufactured without dangerous chemicals

It is difficult to sort all this out on your own. Over our experience of 2500 patients, we have been able to identify CBD manufacturers who we have seen provide good product at reasonable prices for our patients. It helps take the guesswork out of buying CBD.

Because we are always listening to our patients,we can also direct our patients to NYS medical marijuana dispensaries that provide good quality products at the lowest possible prices. Medical marijuana pricing in NY state is 3-4 times that of Florida, which has a much younger program. You don't need to pay any more than that for products that have very little THC or contain chemicals that you don't want in them.

So this is a big service we provide to our patients in addition to personalizing medical marijuana to their own body chemistries. We help our patients get the best quality products at the lowest possible prices.